Jan. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 17

Rural Lands in the Nelson Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—PAKAWAU AND ONETAUA SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

The country consists of low hills, with the exception of about 300 acres of flax and raupo swamp; about half of the remaining area is covered with bush, chiefly birch, with a few rimu, and the rest comprises patches of manuka and tauhinau scrub and open grass land: the whole land, excepting the swamp, being suitable for grazing purposes.

The block can be reached by two routes from Collingwood—the southern end by the Pakawau-West Wanganui Track, distance about fourteen miles; the northern end by a proposed road from the coast, at Puponga, distance about seventeen miles.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Abattoirs, &c., City of Dunedin, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM DEMPSTER SNOWBALL

to be an Inspector of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter for the Borough of the City of Dunedin.

J. CARROLL.

Public Vaccinator, Otaki District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MASON, Esq., L.R.C.P. Edin., &c.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Otaki.

J. CARROLL.

Member of Otago Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

HENRY CLARK

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Otago, as from the 3rd January, 1898.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Trustee for the Havelock Commonage.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in pursuance of section 4 of “The Havelock Commonage Act, 1877,” to appoint

JOHN RYAN,

of Waitahuna, Miner, to be a Trustee for the management of the lands described in the Schedule to the said Act, in the place of Robert Sutherland, deceased.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Members Picton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board appointed.

Lunacy and Charitable Department,
Wellington, 30th December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 7 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” been pleased to appoint

JOHN DUNCAN,
GEORGE RUTLAND,
HARRY MARSH READER, and
JOHN ALLISON LAMBERT

to represent the Pelorus Road Board on the Picton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

W. C. WALKER.

Assistant Land Registrar and Deputy Registrar of Deeds appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HECTOR RICHMOND RIDDELL, Esq.,

to be Assistant Land Registrar and Deputy Registrar of Deeds at Napier as from the 11th day of January, 1898.

J. CARROLL.

Special Order made by the Kowai Road Board, County of Ashley.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1897.

THE following special order, made by the Kowai Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. CARROLL.

KOWAI ROAD BOARD.—SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT the Board do now make a special order—that is to say, that the Kowai Road Board, having received a requisition signed by over two-thirds of the ratepayers in respect of property situated within that portion of the Kowai Road District hereinafter described, and representing considerably over one-half of the rateable value of the rateable property therein—that the Board levy a special rate on all the rateable property within the aforesaid portion of the Kowai Road District, such special rate to be applied in defraying the cost of protective works done and to be done on the north bank of the River Ashley, between the railway-bridge and the Lower Ashley traffic-bridge, by the planting of willows or otherwise; and by special order in conformity therewith hereby notify that, in accordance with sections 120 and 121 of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” “The Rating Act, 1894,” and amendments thereto, the Board will proceed, at its next meeting, to be held on Monday, the 15th November, 1897, to pass a resolution to levy a special rate of ½d. in the pound on the rateable values of all the rateable property in the aforesaid portion of the district for the period ending 6th October, 1898.

The portion of the said Kowai Road District referred to in the petition is bounded as follows: On the south by the north bank of the River Ashley; on the west by the Christchurch to Culverden railway-line (some 5 chains); on the north-west and north by the Ashley and Sefton Road to the Main North Road; on the east by the Main North Road to Saltwater Creek Bridge; and on the south-east by a line drawn from the Saltwater Creek Bridge to the north bank of the River Ashley at the point where the said river flows into the sea.

R. B. HOLDSWORTH,
Chairman, Kowai Road Board.

7th October, 1897.

This is to certify that the above special order was duly proposed, advertised as required by the Act, and carried unanimously by the Kowai Road Board, and duly confirmed.

GEO. S. HICKMAN,
Clerk to the Board.